A method and apparatus for secure storage of data by using redundant keys
is provided. The method includes encrypting a data set by using a master
key, which can be encrypted by different sync keys. Sync keys can be
generated by different supervisor cards. Thereafter, the encrypted master
key and the encrypted data set can be stored in a memory. Further,
credentials stored in one of the supervisor cards can be encrypted and
transferred to other supervisor cards, to provide redundancy of
supervisor cards.